Certificate of Need news and information

The Federal Trade Commission may have won a battle, but it lost the war over Phoebe Putney Health System's expansion in southwestern Georgia.
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Health officials in South Carolina are turning straight to the state's Supreme Court to determine if Republican Gov. Nikki Haley had legal grounds to suspend the state's certificate-of-need program. She used her veto power last week to cut the $1.7 million in funding needed to run the program.
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New York Downtown Hospital—now renamed New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital—has merged with New York-Presbyterian Hospital to become its sixth member, effective July 1.
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A program that South Carolina health officials use to regulate whether hospitals can add new beds, build additional facilities or even buy expensive equipment appears to have been gutted.
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A doctor who died 12 years ago is having an influence on healthcare debates all across the country.
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An effort in Maine to kill the state's certificate-of-need law has the support of Gov. Paul LePage and others who say the free market is a better regulator than the government when it comes to deciding how many healthcare facilities can be built.
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No one doubts Edward Hospital CEO Pam Davis' credentials as a tough customer.
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A New York state Department of Health planning committee scrutinized a "proliferation of robots" during its recent months-long review of the state's certificate of need process, saying too many hospitals are preoccupied with buying high-tech, high-cost equipment regardless of need.
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The removal of certificate of need regulations reduced costs for coronary artery bypass graft, or heart bypass surgery, but did not reduce costs for angioplasty, according to a study.
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An Illinois regulatory board's selection of one hospital plan over another in northwest suburban McHenry County raises questions as to whether the state — rather than the market — should decide the fate of health care projects.
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